Parent Quotes - Page 12

• When I was starting out, being a young entrepreneur was not fashionable. Parents would ask, 'When are you going to get a real job?'

  Kevin Harrington

  Jobs, Real, Young Entrepreneurs

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• We tend to think of divorced or complicated families as a modern invention, and that is not at all true. You only have to read the Greek myths to see broken homes, widows, divorce, stepchildren, children trying to get along with new parents.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Divorce, Home

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• Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Children, Reading, Glowing

  Siri Hustvedt (2012). “Living, Thinking, Looking: Essays”, p.48, Macmillan

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• I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what its like to lose a beloved parent.

  Simone Elkeles

  Dad, Beloved, Lost

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• I think my parents were really smart parents. I think they were, actually, pretty progressive for the time. The one thing that they really wanted me to know is what makes me tick, what I am about, how I approach life. And I think what my parents really wanted for me was for me to be who I am.

  Rich Mullins

  Smart, Thinking, Who I Am

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• Prayer has been hedged about with too many man-made rules. I am convinced that God has intended prayer to be as simple and natural, and as constant a part of our spiritual life, as the intercourse between child and parent in the home. And as a large part of that intercourse between child and parent is simply asking and receiving, just so is it with us and our Heavenly Parent.

  Rosalind Goforth

  Spiritual, Prayer, Children

  Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.5, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• When your parents are Middle Eastern immigrants, you have three choices. You can become a doctor, a lawyer or an engineer.

  Michael Mina

  Doctors, Choices, Three

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• Most kids dont get to go their parents wedding.

  Ken Livingstone

  Kids

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• My parents had a factory, so I was linked to the textile and fashion industry.

  Francisco Costa

  Fashion, Textiles, Factories

  Interview with Ryan McGinley, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2, 2012.

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• I think a lot of parents hand people over a blueprint and say, This is how youre supposed to do it. And my parents, I think, kind of drew a picture and said, Heres the good stuff in life. How do you get there?

  Rich Mullins

  Thinking, Hands, People

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• There have been systems of religion where the mother is the prime parent, the source, and she's really a more immediate parent than the father, because one is born from the mother...so that the image of the woman is the image of the world.

  Joseph Campbell

  Mother, Father, World

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• I was ten years old in 1969, and while we lived in Arizona that year, I spent most of the summer staying with family friends in Portland, Oregon while my parents visited Spain. It was an adventure all around.

  Patrick Nielsen Hayden

  Summer, Adventure, Portland Oregon

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• I was brought up by great parents and great grandparents who told me, 'Never, ever think that you're better than anyone else or that what you do is so important that the world won't miss you once you're gone,' and I kind of translate that into the stardom thing.

  Yolanda Adams

  Thinking, Grandparent, Missing

  "Gospel Singer Yolanda Adams, 'Day by Day'". "News & Notes" with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. August 30, 2005.

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• I’m honored that PBteen has seen me as someone who can help a broader audience understand the need to use recycled, repurposed and organic materials. Global conservation is a focal point of the capsule collection and it falls right in line with the change and direction I’m working towards, on a professional and personal basis. In collaborating with PBteen, we are creating a subtle and natural feel with this collection - something that has an authentic appeal for teens and their parents alike.

  Kelly Slater

  Fall, Creating, Needs

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• I grew up in northern New Jersey - the banlieue of New York - and I now live in Brooklyn. I am separated from my parents by about 50 miles, but really there is almost no distance between us. I speak to them nearly every day.

  Jonathan Ames

  New York, Distance, Brooklyn

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• I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.

  Chris Lilley

  Running, Men, Thinking

  Biography/Personal quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

  Bill Gates

  Years, Names, Imagine

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• To my parents, writing seemed precarious and not the best idea.

  Chad Harbach

  Writing, Ideas, Precarious

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• Yes, I believe in school choice. Parents know far better than government bureaucrats what their children need from an education standpoint, and they should be permitted to make that choice.

  Matt Salmon

  Children, Believe, School

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• Both my parents instilled an interest in science and mathematics.

  George Smoot

  Mathematics, Interest

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• Like many parents after a long family holiday, I usually welcome the moment when my kids head back to school.

  Jose Andres

  School, Holiday, Kids

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• The great virtue of parents is a great dowry.

  Horace

  Family, Dowry, Virtue

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• I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want to keep their children totally ignorant.

  Frank Zappa

  Children, Thinking, Ignorant

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• Becoming a parent is actually terrifying. A lot of people have that feeling about their dogs. And if you're the kind of person who's going to have that feeling about a dog you're definitely going to have that about a child.

  Joan Didion

  Dog, Children, People

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• I got into rock and roll to piss my parents off and the establishment around me.

  Kid Rock

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Establishment

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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